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2053 is pretty far. I wish Dover, who hold publication rights, improved typesetting of this and a few other classic textbooks. It's probably not hard to use an LLM to do the bulk of the conversion to TeX work cheaply, and then some hum
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Richard Zach et al. logic textbooks are a work of art: https://slc.openlogicproject.org . Aside, I'd be happy to pay for great classic math textbooks in a well typeset edition. Finite Dimensional Vector Spaces is one such
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IMHO, Mac OS X contributed decisively towards making Apple cool, which was followed by lots of boutique apps and the success of iOS. Loosing that critical mass of developers, even if it's a tiny userbase, would worry me if I was a top
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Linux power management is pretty good. The problem is that defaults favor desktop and server performance. On a MacBook Air 11, my custom Linux setup and Mac OS had the same battery autonomy, despite Safari being much more energy efficient.
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I submitted an application which I typeset using LaTeX, and some people thought it was AI-generated because of en and em dashes. I have been using these since forever.
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Yes, my undergrad school was dominated by some compiler researchers. We didn't cover it all, by any means, but we built lots of lexers, parsers, and interpreters. There was an elective that went through the rest of the book. Crafting I
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That sucks, thanks for the heads up. I guess we bought one of the last decent models then.
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Miele has some home dishwashers that are not too different from their commercial models. Really spartan and silent. A knob and two buttons, or a couple of buttons and a led display. The price is also not too bad, around €750.
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Firejail sandboxing works well on these scenarios. You can trivially grant more or less privileges, including the removal of the entire sandbox if you wish. It actually ships with rulesets for hundreds of programs that tend to be quite poli
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My BSc degree taught lots of things that would be useful for an average software developer with some experience. MSc programs tend to be more research-oriented and thus less practical unless you work in some R&D niche that matches what
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> the majority of roles seem to be fake I think in the UK most good posts are not well advertised, just sourced through recruiters. The trick is to connect with and follow good recruiters for your particular niche on LinkedIn.
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ProbLog? https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/problog
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Firejail and bwrap can do this in a relatively convenient way, but adding nix shell on top of that is quite clumsy. In a regular distro, it is tolerable, but a better UI would be great.
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Why? I am just asking for a simple UI, which Guix already has. Mainly for CLI applications. The idea is to be able to launch an ephemeral shell with any combination of packages, filesystem R/W privileges, and network access in a conven
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Non-standard services daemon vs systemd. Otherwise, available packages are tidy and well defined. NixPkgs, which I use and develop for, is less tidy.
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Firejail and bwrap are setuid sandbox frontends. You can wrap e.g. a new xz invocation to let it work on your private keys. But Nix relies on ephemeral shells and flakes, and they don't play so well with each other. The interface is cl
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by nextos 2y ago
> It’s possible to do this entirely in systemd service configuration Sure, but I think that leaves out many use cases. What if I want to e.g. start a Python shell that has access to certain directories, and nothing else, including no net
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> NixOS and reproducible builds did not detect the xz backdoor Nix declarativeness is quite useful to increase protection against exploits in a number of ways. Unfortunately, there is still a lot of untapped potential. My number one prio
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Also, their genetic risk scores and population admixtures are really bad. I can't understand why they are so bad given that they hired pretty good researchers and building these is quite simple. Freely available models run circles arou
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That is not a good analogy. Symbolism has given us lots of useful things, including SAT/SMT and theorem provers.
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http://forestdb.org is quite old and includes some toy examples that IMHO elegantly combine symbolic and probabilistic reasoning.
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I agree. About a year into the Intel transition, around 2007, it was incredibly stable. I was doing hardcore computation 24/7 on a MacBook, including model checking real-time systems, and I vividly remember the exact day I experienced
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I don't think so. I own the printed version and it starts discussing GPT in page 6 already.
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This is my take as well. I think something like Dafny + LLMs will raise in popularity.
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> It doesn't prove that your specification is bug-free & vulnerability-free. There are formal development methodologies where you start with a small set of very simple axioms and you iteratively refine them. Eventually, you end
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Galois connections are super useful for static program analysis. In particular, for abstract interpretation. A great intro book is [1]. [1] Program Analysis – An Appetizer. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.10086
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Is position #10 in https://octoverse.github.com/2022/top-programming-languages bad? It ranks right after Shell (#8) and C (#9). Ruby is still a mainstream language, and it's fairly easy to find a Ruby job. Compare
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I guess it's the usual lifecycle most organizations go through, and generous funding has accelerated the process. The only upside is that, in theory, anyone could fork Firefox and continue development within a healthier structure. It&#
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I think this depends a lot on the store. For example, Waitrose Oxford has self-checkout but they have disabled those tricky weighting sensors, which is great because they always slow you down. In contrast, Waitrose Abingdon not only has the
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Jokes aside regexes being AI, lots of protein motifs can be elegantly described by simple regexes. And their classification performance is sometimes perfect. See the Eukaryotic Linear Motif resource: http://elm.eu.org/elms

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